Dance is a uniquely significant art form, whose primary material is
not simply the 'body', but energy as it is used and experienced in
movement. Energy is central to discourses of modernity and
modernism, in which choreographers and dancers can actively
intervene through their innovative uses of energy. Mary Wigman,
Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham are key choreographers of the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whose rhythmic innovations
challenged established norms of energy usage in their
socio-cultural contexts, enabling their contemporaries to engage
differently with dominant economies of energy. This book explores
their rhythmic innovations by combining discussion of cultural
contexts with close analysis of specific dance works. Uses of
energy in dance are described and analysed with the aid of concepts
drawn from Rudolf Laban's writings, and are theorized with
reference to historical, social and cultural contexts and to
phenomenological and post-structuralist approaches to the embodied
subject, constructing the argument that choreographical innovation
- including recent work using digital technologies - involves a
process of 'kinesthetic imagination'.
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